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Letter: Fair wages

The Enterprise by The Enterprise
February 22, 2017
in Voice of the People
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I am getting sick and tired of hearing about “Main stream media can’t be trusted.”

This started 30 years ago when the Fairness Doctrine was declared null and void by Reagan. Ever since then, conservative “media” set out to destroy the public’s trust in any news source that isn’t far right. It would seem they have been really successful.

Why did they do this? To keep working class people from uniting and demanding to be paid better. As long as we keep distrusting each other because of color, class, gender, sexuality, our stance on abortion…we will never come together and say “we helped you make all this money, we deserve to see more of it!!”

Your middle class jobs were sent overseas so that your bosses no longer have to pay a good wage or benefits. Those jobs are now held by people that live in shacks without running water. Manufacturing in these countries also have no safety rules, keeping more money in the hands of the owners and killing and maiming workers.

What excuse will business owners use next to not pay well? Right now it is that “manufacturing” jobs are all gone, and apparently other types of jobs don’t deserve a livable wage. If the least skilled among us do not deserve a livable wage for a 40 hour a week job, what does that say about the values of this “Christian” nation?

The only way to a robust economy is to pay working people well. That is why the economy was so great after World War II, working class people were well-paid. They had money and they spent it. Hard for us to spend money when we don’t have any.

The solution to our economic problems is a livable wage for everyone that works a 40-hour week, regardless of skill or education. That is never going to happen with our present administration.

Susan Lea Rudd

 

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